Peter Baerg

Mennonite Genealogy with Michael Penner

Peter Baerg (1817-1901)

Peter Baerg (1817-1901) was a carpenter and a senior and prominent minister in the Kleine Gemeinde . His first marriage was to Susanna Neumann (1820-1891). They lived in the Molotschna Colony before moving to the Crimea in 1861. A year later, Peter was elected as a Kleine Gemeinde minister. He emigrated from Russia to Canada in 1874 along with his wife Susanna and the youngest four of their six children. They settled in Gruenfeld, Manitoba. He continued as a spiritual leader in Manitoba into is elderly years and was known as a gifted preacher.

Peter retired from farming in his late sixties in the year 1886. His wife Susanna died on February 15, 1891 and later that year Peter married widow Katharina Schellenberg. Peter and Katharina were elderly newlyweds, aged about 75 and 74, respectively. They settled in a small house in Blumenort, Manitoba. In his older years, Peter kept busy with shoe repair work. Katharina died in Blumenort on May 4, 1901. Her body is laid to rest in Blumenort.

Source: Leaders, by Delbert Plett, p647-54

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